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Judges in the final contest, which 15,000 New Yorkers went to hear and see, were Dr. Spaeth, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Luther Corwin Steward, a Washington folk-song collector. Al Smith may have felt a sympathy with the Blessed Sacrament Lyceum Quartet of Queens which arrived in red, purple, green and yellow striped bathing suits, sang I've Been Working on the Railroad and Mandy Lee. But he and his colleagues unanimously liked best the Bay City Four (a teacher, a cashier, a clerk, a statistician) from Brooklyn. These young singers slicked their hair over their foreheads...
...dollars Dudley N. Hartt, Jr. '37 gave a demonstration in the Dunster House Dining Hall yesterday evening which showed conclusively that given a certain amount of stimulation one can eat even more gastrically fatal things than a nice fresh worm. Before a roomful of awed waitresses and a horrified steward, who took the act to be a personal insult, the talented Sophomore casually emptied his fountain pen into his soup and tossed the mixture off, smacking his lips, while waitresses gulped and sprinted for the kitchen. Interviewed by the CRIMSON reporter, he said, "It was solely in the interests...
...painting is the work of Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, Viscount Hastings, son & heir of the Earl of Huntington. A direct descendant of Robert Hastings, steward to William the Conqueror, with ancestral estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...
...removed his big feet from his (Culbertson's) side of the table." When the uprear had subsided enough for articulate speech to be heard, Mrs. Culbertson revealed that it was her foot that her husband had encountered. A slight hush fell on the combatants, and Ely ordered the steward to draw a chalk line on the floor under the middle of the table "to avoid further trouble." Then Sims enraged Culbertson in the one hundred and thirteenth rubber by protesting that eighteen minutes was a little too long a time to ponder before playing a single card...
Empire stewardship has now been in Conservative Party hands for nearly five years. One year ago the No. 1 steward, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, closed his annual budget with a triumphant surplus of ?31,148,000 (then $159.477,760), and reduced the basic British income tax rate from five shillings on the pound (25%) to four shillings sixpence (20%). Said hawk-nosed Mr. Chamberlain dryly, "I think the nation has finished the story of Bleak House and can begin that of Great Expectations...